I'm kind of curious as to how Burfict and Rey did (vincent that is). I was having a tough time singling out players with the chaos in my house (2 year olds are destructive when you have no kids and the house isn't toddler proofed!).

Vincent Rey was pretty bad. Basically just stood back and waited for plays to develop. Hopefully his playing time is cut or it was just early season/playing time jitters.

Burfict did good but was hard to judge. He was more aggressive/decisive than our other LB's but a lot of the plays didn't go his way.

Also the goat of the defense, even more than Geathers, was Miles. Really disappointed because he looked good in preseason. Miles took a horrible angle on the first T-Rich TD run, then on the T-Rich catch for a TD, he had an easy tackle after Rey missed but he missed as well. Then on the TD to Greg Little, he blew his zone. 3 TDs on Miles. Inexcusable.

Lastly Orson Charles > Gresham. Not sure what happened but either Gresham isn't interested or he's soft. Charles is a 100x better blocker and doesn't make the mental mistakes that Gresham does. I say bench Gresham already for Charles..._________________

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Yall remember that one time Burifict made a tackle and didn't have to leave the game? Good times.

There was a recent SI article on Justin Smith (several pages). One quote in there suggested that he never really studied very hard in Cincy. He just played in instincts and effort. He wasn't a film guy. He then went on to say that he does those things now and it's paying dividends.

How would our 'D' be looking right now with Justin Smith @ DE and Ahmad Brooks @ SLB ?_________________" Democracy is a system where two idiots can out-vote a genius..........."

There was a recent SI article on Justin Smith (several pages). One quote in there suggested that he never really studied very hard in Cincy. He just played in instincts and effort. He wasn't a film guy. He then went on to say that he does those things now and it's paying dividends.

How would our 'D' be looking right now with Justin Smith @ DE and Ahmad Brooks @ SLB ?